DELICIOUS Pumpkin and Chocolate Chip Muffins

My baking urge started with a picture in a blog I often read: The chocolate chip pumpkin bread looked delicious! (November 7, 2011) So I hunted down the recipe*.

Here it is! But I made muffins...














1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)

2. In a large bowl, combine:

• 3 cups white sugar (or a little less to taste)
  
• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2/3 cup water
• 4 eggs

3. Beat until smooth.


















4. Add:

• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (As usual, I made some substitutions: I included 1/4 cup each of psyllium, oat flour, quinoa flour, wheat germ and whole wheat flour in place of some of the white flour. )
  

5. Mix in:

• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon ground nutmeg

( I also substituted 1 teaspoon each of ginger and allspice in place of the nutmeg... But it was still delicious!)

6. Add 1 cup of chocolate chips.














7. Fill muffin tins or loaf pan 1/2 to 3/4 full and bake for 25 minutes for muffins, for 1 hour for loaf pans - or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool on wire racks before removing from tins or pans. This large recipe makes 3 loaves - or, in my case, 12 cupcakes and 2 loaves.

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*The recipe in the blog "Just Breakfast" is credited to this blog... But later (hunting down nutritional information) I discovered the same recipe on the Allrecipes.com Canada website as well.